The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
May 27, 1993
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1893-1918-1943-1968-1983

100 Years Ago (1893)

Ara Warner has been engaged by manager Jos. Hammel to play ball with the Medford club this season.
 
Holzhausen’s new cheese factory at Zimmer’s corners in the new town of Reseburg is nearly ready to commence its seasons work.
 
F. D. Winter has carpenters at work on his new store building which will soon be up and enclosed.  It will be a handsome structure.
 
Victor Fellows has purchased a machine for making brick at a rate of 15,000 per day, and expects to begin manufacturing in a short time.
 
Miss Lizie Kelley, teacher in the second primary, has been ill for several days past, and Miss Julia Garrison has been teaching in her department.
 
The marriage of Thomas Biddle and Miss May Craig, daughter of Nelson Craig, took place at Stanley on Sunday last, C. a. Krupp officiating justice.
 
Jos. Sheblak and Miss Mary Kleckner were united in marriage at the Catholic Church at Edson on Tuesday.
 
Bobb’s Mill – We are informed that we are to have another saw mill and beading factory here in the near future.
 
Neillsville got the $15,000 appropriation for the location of a normal school at that place at the special meeting of the county board held last week.
 
Longwood – Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Poppe a 10 lb. baby boy last Wednesday.
 
Stanley Sunbeams – The number of employees in and around the N.W.L. Co’s saw mill is 75. – Ole Olson, the south side merchant, has improved the front of his store building and engaged Herman Tiedeman of Thorp as clerk.
 
Eidsvold – Born on Saturday, May 6 to Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Storey, a son.
 
75 Years Ago (1918)
 
The marriage of Miss Edith S. Benzschawel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Benzschawel of the Town of Worden, and Mr. Andrew C. Heiman, of the Town of Thorp, was solemnized at St. Bernard’s Church on Tuesday morning, May 21st.
 
Neiman’s Corner – P. Trybowski sold his farm recently. – Mrs. Frances Malecka, who was ill for over a year, died of paralysis at her daughter’s home on Thursday Morning.
 
Anton Micke, Chas. Mortenson and W. J. Bivans attended the cattle sale at Marshfield on Friday last.  Mr. Bivans purchased a purebred Holstein cow at the sale for $240.
 
The heirs of the E. A. Boardman estate have sold the greater part of the same to Peter Papierniak, reserving one acre and the mill located thereon.  Mr. Papierniak has sold his twenty-acre farm to John Daniels taking in trade the latter’s residence property and thirteen acres of land north of the village limits.
 
Wm. Krause and son had eight head of purebred Holstein cattle consigned to the Central Wisconsin Livestock Breeders sale at Marshfield.  The sale was held on Friday of last week.  The total of the eight head is $2,030.00, an average of $253.00 per head.
 
50 Years Ago (1943)
 
Masonic services were conducted at the Thorp Funeral Home at 2:00 o’clock Friday afternoon, May 21st, by Thorp Lodge No. 264, F & A.M., for William Wagner, 83, pioneer newspaperman, who passed away at his home here on Tuesday morning, May 18, 1943 at 9:00 o’clock. 
 
Mrs. Margaret Wolter (Fox), 82, a pioneer resident of the Town of Longwood, died at the home of her daughter on May 19, 1943 after a short illness.
 
A telegram received Friday by Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wojt of the Township of Withee announced the death of their son John 25, who was killed in action on April 30, 1943 in the North African Battle.
 
Sergeant LeRoy James Kaczor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kaczor of Thorp, and Miss Penny J. Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Williams of Champaign, Illinois, were united in marriage in a ceremony performed by Rev. Crowe at the Seminary of the Methodist Church in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday afternoon, May 19th.
 
Francis J. Conway and John A. Papierniak of Thorp have purchased the old First National Bank building on Bridge Street; it was announced today by the officers of the First and Lumberman’s Bank.
 
Worden – Born to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Danielewicz a baby boy.
 
Born to; Mr. and Mrs. James Biddle of the Town of Thorp a son on Thursday evening May 13, 1943.  He was named James Allen.
 
25 Years Ago (1968)
 
Geralynn Wadzinski, 17, daughter of Thorp Mayor and Mrs. Frank Wadzinski died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, on Sunday afternoon of a possible brain hemorrhage.
 
Pauline Nied, of the graduating class of 1968, at Thorp High School, has been given the Annual award of the Reader’s Digest Association for students who by their successful school work give promise of attaining leadership in the community.
 
At Thorp High School’s Class Night, on May 18, Douglas Woodworth, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Woodworth, received a $500.00 Scholarship from the Wis. American Legion. 
 
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stroinski are the proud parents of a 7 lb. 2 oz. baby girl, Diane Marie, born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield on Sat. May 18th.
 
Robert Cattanach Jr. has received an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.
 
John Edward Pajak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pajak, Thorp, has been appointed to the rank in the U. S. Navy of Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class while serving aboard U.S.S. Simon Lake.
 
Walter F. Balicki, age 74, died May 6th at Covina, CA, a former resident of Thorp, Chicago and lately of Covina, Calif.
 
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Stanley was the setting for the marriage of Miss Jean Carol Schultze and Leonard J. Gutowski on Sat. May 11.
 
Gilman – Word was received here of the birth of a daughter Rita Irene to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liazuk of Chicago, May 14th.  Robert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Liazuk.
 
Jacob Kozial, 82, of Sheldon, passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital after a short illness.
 
A Warrenville man was killed and two others were injured critically early Sunday, May 5th.  Richard L. Olichweir, 23, was hurt fatally when a car he was a passenger in went out of control on River Road, near Bower School and struck a utility post.
 
106 Thorp Seniors Receive Diplomas: Mark Ahles, Charles Alger, Edward Alger, Ronald Anderson, Arlene Arciszewski, Calvin Baehr, Walter Baehr, Karen Bando, Steven Baures, Janice Beckman, Russell Behm, Randy Berdal, Gregory Bichanich, Diane Biddle, Rosemarie Bielecki, Daniel Boardman, Gary Boie, John Borysiak, Richard Boyarski, James Briski, Donna Broeren, Betty Claussen, Darrel Cyrus, Deborah Ebben, Constance Ehlert, Michael Elkins, Allene Franckiewicz, Linda Gajda, David Gilbertson, Kenneth Grajkowski, Thomas Grajkowski, John Gurklis. More next week!